And when the one being called upon only reserves for times of hardship, he rebuked them, regretting and condemning their short-sightedness regarding themselves, establishing the consequence because this saying is absolute, not because it is from a specific speaker: "Then it was said to them"; that is, after their torment had prolonged, and it had reached its utmost with them, and they found no supporter to rescue them nor an intercessor to specifically aid them: "Where are"; and the expression about them with the tool of what does not comprehend is in its most precise context in His saying: "What you used to"; that is, always "associate"; that is, by your supplication to them in your important matters, a supplication of worship, along with renewing it at every time.